Side-screen attachment for the weather shields of motor vehicles



C. V. CORNFQRTH SIDE SCREEN ATTACBIENT FOR THE WEATHER SHIELDS OF "OTOR VEHIJLBS Filed Oct- 2. 1924 Irr CluE 6" AtroR /Er Patented Apr. 20, 1926.

UNITED. STATES CLAUDE VINCENT ooRNEonrH, 0E WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND.

SIDE-SCREEN ATTACHMENT FOR THE WEATHER SHIELDS OF MOTOR VEHICLES.

Application 'filed 0ctober 2, 1924, Serial No. 741,177.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLAUDE VINCENT CoRNroRrH, subject of the King of Great,

Britain, residing at Selwyn Hotel, Clyde Quay, Vvellington, in the Dominion of New Zealand, have invented new and useful 1111- provements in Side-Screen Attachments for the Weather Shields of Motor Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the usual form of side screen attachment to the win-d shields of motor car and like vehicles formed'by a glass plate that is arranged to extend edge on with-each side edge of the wind shield and is attached to the wind shield frame by bracket fittings designed to permit of the screen beingv moved to any desired angle with the surface plane'of the wind shield.

The invention has been devised with the object'of providing improved fittings for use in the attachment of the screen, such fittings being so constructed and mounted as to allow for the screen being readily and firmly positioned at any desired angle, and particularly to provide for the screen being swung right out orright in flat against the surface of the shield in order thus that the weather curtains of the car may be placed in their usual positions without obstruction. The construction also is such that provision is made for an opening between the edge of the screen and the shield should such be desired for ventilation purposes.

The construction, however, embodies as v oneof its principal features of novelty, special clamping means for holding the plate glass of the screen in such a manner that it is gripped firmly and over a fair proportion of its heightso that any possibility of break age b torsion on the glass through strain or vi ration is largely overcome. 'Such means also are of such a nature as to form a minimum obstruction to the car drivers view. 1

The essential features of construction are shown in the accompanying drawings as embodied in two methods of carrying out the invention, especially with regard to the v manner in which the bracket supports for the screen are made and attached to the weather shield.

In such drawings s Figure 1 is a front face view of a screen mounted upon the windshield, showing'it positioned straight out from the shieldin order to clearly illustrate the construction and working of its mountings, according to one manner carrying out theinvention.

Figure 2 is a plan thereof, but's'howing the srceen also in dotted lines in its usual running position. v I (Figure 3 is a similar view to Figure 1, but illustrating the secondmanner of carrying outthe invention.

Figure 4 is a back elevation, on a full sized scale, of one of the bracket attachments for securing to the weather shield, as used with the fittings shown in Figure 3. Figure 5 is a plan thereof, drawn partly in section. I r In carrying out the invention accordingto both forms shown in the drawings, the screen plate A is attached to the edge of the weather shield B by means of a pair of double crank arms CG each having a vertical journal pin 0 oneach end. Each crank arm has its two jounnal pins 0 journalled in bracket bearings affixed respectively-to the side bar B of the weather shield, and to the screen, so that they may turn in such bearings. This therefore provides for the screen being extended outward to leave a space between 1ts inner edge and the edge of the shield, and bent backwards at any desired angle, or for being turned in with its inner-edge behind the edge of the shield and then bent backwards at the ordinary running angle, as shown by the dotted lines in Figure 2. Or,

the screen may be swung right in to lie flat- 1y against the'inside of the shield, or arranged in any position rendered possible by the double crank mounting of the screen thus provided for.

In both forms of the device also, the screen plate A is heldby being engaged on each face by a clamping bar D extending up such face near its inner edge; The two bars are arranged in coincidence with each other,

0 on the corresponding end of the crank C,

so that with the half journal on the other side, a complete journal bearing F is formed for turning on such pin. The two clamping bars are secured'together to grip the screen between them, by means of the screw G passing laterally through'the extensions E at the top and bottom, alongside the edge of the screen.

*- the two halves of the journal bearing F together and to tighten them more or less around the crank pin 0, but if required,the two halves may be further secured together by forming the inner edge ofeach with alug f and passing a small screw f through both lugs. The journals F are retained on the crank pins 0 by beingengaged by enlarged heads 0 formed or secured upon such pins.

-The twoways of carrying out the invention differ only in the meansemployed to journal the inner ends of the double cranks C upon the side bar B of'the weather shield.

These means, in the form shown in Fig ures 1 and 2, for each crank arm C, provide for a clamp journal to clamp upon the bar B at the requisite distance from the other to accord with the positions assumed by the respective crank pins 0 on the inner ends of the crank arms. Each of such clamps is formed in two parts I-I-H eachof which at its inner end is adapted to fit upon the front, or rear face of the bar and at its outer end is made with a half journal bearing H that forms with the other half bearing, a full journal bearing to receive the crank pin 0. The two halves are caused to grip the shieldbar by means of a screw bolt J passed laterally through them, ad-

jacent to such bar and are caused to close around the journal pin 0 with a more or less tightened engagement, by the second screw bolt K passed laterally through them,

close up to such bearing. In this arrangement also the crank pin 1S formed with an enlarged end to retain it within the journal hearing. a

It will be seen that by the adjustment of the necessary screws, the journal bearings F and H may be tightened upon the crank pins to such an extent as to provide a frictional resistance against their relative turning and thereby to ensure that the screen will be retained in the position or angle to which it is adjuste In this form of theinvention, the crank arms are disposed so that the outer pins 0 or both arms extend upwards within their respective journal bearings F while'the inner pins 0 extend downwards in their jour- This screw also serves to hold nals H, the crank arm being curved downwards from its .mner to its outer end to bring the two pins into an overlapping horiv for attachment to the side bar of the shield is made in three parts and a clamping screw, so designed and arranged that by the operation of the screw the bracket is clamped V to the said bar and the journal bearing for the crank in is closed. Its construction also provides fbr its readyfitting to any shape or size of said bar. 1

The fitting has one ofits parts M made of right angle form in plan so that one member M" may extend in across the front of thebar B and the otherthen extend rearwards alongside such bar, such member M" having a groove m formed vertically on its inner face to fit on to suchv bar, The other two parts are formed by metal blocks N and O that are designed to extend edge on, adjacent to one another, from the inside of therearwardly extending member of the part M and in parallel lines with the member M. of such part. The two parts are formed on their adjacent faces with vertical coincidentally arranged semi-circular grooves P that together form a bearing toreceive the pin 0 of the crank arm concerned, The forward face of the part N is made with a vertical groove n that is adapted to fit over the rear edge of the bar B".

The screw pin R is made to extend through from the rear and to pass freely throughv the parts N and O' and then to screwinto the part M. Its head is recessed into the rear surface of the part 0 so that when the parts are assembled on the shield bar B and the crank pin 0 placed in its position, the screwing in of the screw will cause the two parts N and O to tighten around the crank pin and the bar B to be clamped between the part'N and the member M of the part M. Thus a rigid conneotion is made that will provide a firm bracket'bearing' for the'cran-k arm to turn in. In this case also the frictional grip of the journal bearings upon the respective crank pins will'provide the necessary resistance to hold the screen in its adjusted position. r i

I claim f In side screen attachments to the weather shields of motor vehicles, a pair of clamp- 1ng bars arranged to extend one up each face of the screen, near its inner edge and in a coincident position with the other bar, and each formed with lateral extensions near the respective upper and lower ends that project coincidently with those of the other bar beyond the screen edge and form between their ends a vertically extending journal bearin and a clamping screw passing laterally t rough both extensions to cause the bars to gripthescreen between them, in combination with pivoting means engaging 1 in such journal bearin s and pivotally attached to the shield e ge, substantially as specified,- In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature.

CLAUDE VINCENT OORNFORTI-I. 

